OK, so for a long time (a bit over one year, or maybe even longer, I didn’t check) you have seen THIS BLOG LAYOUT.
Like, here. THIS blog layout u see right now.
Neat, yet messy. Simple color schemes, yet complicatedly not matching. Paradoxical and contradictory, a lot like me.
BUT here’s the thing…
I NEED A NEW SKIN!
I find that this blog layout doesn’t appeal to me anymore, and in fact it’s getting harder and harder to redesign according to certain phases of the year.
For example, the best one I ever did was the Halloween re-design, which was basically all black, with white fonts, and a large Jack-O-Lantern as the top photo.
Others have not been as good. Valentine’s Day, for example, proved to be so difficult. The pink-red color scheme I used ‘hurt people’s eyes’ (thanks, Claire), so in the end I kept the top photo of a rose and changed the background to white instead.
White, of course, was predominantly used during the Christmas theme, with the top photo of a snow-covered field and hut. I found that white was the best, being clean and pristine, but at the same time, it was rather boring.
There are many other themes I did, but I’ve realized it’s time for a change.
Even though manipulating the HTML for this site has been VERY easy (to touch up or change the sidebar, I just have to literally instant-add my HTML) I’m now looking for a new look!
This site design, firstly, was by a teenage blogger/designer, Puppie89, who is known for her simplistic layouts – B&W, for example, or simple box-picture combinations (like the one I’m using now, called Trees of Sadness).
I’m browsing through some of her other work now, but none of them appeal to me just yet. Sorry, girl!
Then Felicia Day introduced me to this guy’s website, http://www.mattbrett.com/, and I really really like it!
Of course I can’t steal his site look (duh…) but word has it he’s releasing some of his free WordPress themes and hopefully I can incorporate them into Blogspot, if not, CHANGE MY URL!!! (GASP! First change EVER!)
I guess what I’m looking for is a multi-pronged sort of layout. Like, not just my posts, lumped up into one chunk, but able to be spread out and divided into genres.
So that it’d be easier, for people who read my blog to navigate and find, for example, Single of the Week, reviews (of movies and music and books), my wish list, Matching Music with Moods, my own writings of poetry and plays, or just plain rants and complaints.
Right now, everything is just thrown in together into one big mess of words. I’m hoping to change that and make the blog more specialized, I guess.
After all, it’s JC life already. If I don’t start getting things organized, it doesn’t really bode well for me and my ability to keep my affairs under control.
So, anyway, back on point, if anyone, ANYONE at all, has an idea like that, a skin of that sort or a blog theme that can be used, please PLEASE do contact me! I need a change badly! Get rid of the past year’s karma and web energy and stuff, and start new things!
Thanks also, to Miss Day for the heads-up to Brett’s site…I won’t use his stuff I guess, since you’re going to, but if you actually buy one of his custom layouts DO LET ME SEE! Input from various sources is always welcome!
P.S. This new scheme now will probably be the last of this skin… Already I have had people telling me this look is too drab and gloomy… and the words are hard to read. AHHH!!! Every blogger’s nightmare is upon me!
P.P.S HAPPY APRIL FOOLS’ DAY!
